Sentences with phrase «former state employees»

The case is a bit complicated, but essentially the commission rescinded a previous year's ruling and expanded the intrepretation of laws governing former state employees moving over to the lobbying side.

Those are the key allegations that former state employee Lisa Marie Cater makes in a federal lawsuit filed here over the weekend.

Last week, several current and former state employees said Percoco sent them a blistering email demanding that the younger Aiello receive a 10 percent raise following a 2015 transfer to Cuomo's office from the state Homes and Community Renewal agency.

or, «I helped create a new chapter in the bankruptcy code for states, with a modification to ERISA that allows for lowering of pension and healthcare benefits paid to former state employees for states under financial stress.»

No fewer than eight other individuals, both professionals from companies like Tutor Perini Civil and current and former state employees, tout the Harbor Lights project in their LinkedIn profiles.

The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.»

A former senior official appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo who resigned recently has been accused by a former state employee of sexual harassment and assault, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan over the weekend.

In a statement the governor's counsel says there's «reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals, they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.»

In a statement, Schwartz said: «The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals, they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.

In November, Lisa Marie Cater, a former state employee, filed a lawsuit against Sam Hoyt, a former Cuomo appointee and former Democratic assemblyman from Buffalo, accusing him of paying $ 50,000 to buy her silence after he sexually harassed her.

``... that the lifetime bar only prohibits a former State employee from subsequently rendering services on the same «case, proceeding, application or transaction.»

The Commission determined that once the «legislative / regulatory creation» has been completed, however, the lifetime bar does not prohibit a former State employee from rendering services repudiating the program that he or she worked to create.»

Bart Schwartz, who is leading the state's investigation, has said the state had reason to believe that «in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.»

Late one Friday afternoon in April, the governor's office released a statement admitting certain contractors may have «deceived» and «defrauded» the state — and acknowledged that «former state employees» might have engaged in «self - dealing» and «improper lobbying.»

Mr. Cuomo's office announced last month it had enlisted a former federal prosecutor to conduct an internal «review» of the Western New York program to examine potential «improper lobbying» and «self - dealing» involving «former state employees» — an apparent reference to Mr. Percoco, who left his post as Mr. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary at the end of last year to take a job at Madison Square Garden.

But if a former state employee goes to work as a consultant for a firm that doesn't disclose its activities, it's difficult to find out whether they're violating the state's post-employment rules.

An outside attorney hired by Cuomo to look into the matter said last month: «The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interests by lobbyists and former state employees.»

At the initial announcement in late April, Schwartz said in a statement that there was «reason to believe» that lobbyists and former state employees had committed fraud.

«The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees,» Schwartz said.

Hoyt, while flatly denying the accusations lodged against him by another former state employee, did admit to having an «inappropriate relationship» with the woman and also paying her what we've learned is a $ 50,000 settlement a year ago.

«The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees,» Mr. Schwartz said in the statement.

«The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees,» Schwartz wrote, in apparent reference to Cuomo associates Joseph Percoco and Todd Howe.

The governor himself faces no charges of wrongdoing, and he admitted in April that «former state employees» may have «deceived» and «defrauded» his administration and engaged in «self - dealing.»

The director of the governor's own internal investigation on the matter has already said that there's reason to believe that the state may have been «defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.»

«The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees,» Schwartz said in a news release.

Measures included increased taxes, specific targets for reducing the numbers employed by the state, reductions in social welfare payments, reductions in the minimum wage, and reductions in pension payments to former state employees.